Tournament for charity and "battle testing"

So, I have just gotten back from battle testing my latest list, and also raising money for a good cause.

For my list, see my previous blog post.

The tournament was a three round tournament with proceeds going towards Toys for tots. In the end, I won the tournament but we managed to raise 85 dollars and a ton of toys for them so it was a success.

So, Instead of going through a full battle report for each game, I'll just hit the highlights for my list.

Game 1

Faced off against empire light/war machine council. 3 cannons, 2 hellblasters, light mages out the ass, a block of knights and one unit of spearmen with 2 detachments. He made the mistake of advancing towards me and not shooting at me as I rushed my three blocks and the kardashian up as fast as I could to get into the safety of combat. We called the game on turn 3 when I had destroyed his detachments, had his spearmen assaulted and flanked by corsairs, executioners and the kardashian, and had my blackguard playing clean up duty on the war machines and mages.

Game 2

Warriors of khorne and nurgle were my next opponent in a meeting engagement senario. I played the waiting game, shoring up my blocks to get charges and flanks as I had the shooting advantage. Finally, he charged into my corsairs with lord (who proceeded to hold after doing a ton of wounds) and I flanked him with executioners and the kardashian. He was almost tabled on turn 5 after his khorne deamon prince got eaten by the kardashian because he stole her money.

Game 3

Blood and glory vs heavy orcs with chaff. He only had a fortitude of 5 so I tried desperatly to doombolt the general for two turns before a doom diver took them out, but managed to kill his bsb in combat, and his block of goblins (who took a Word of pain/bladewind combo to the face and killed 40 something gobbos) for the win. I couldn't kill a friggen giant with 30 dice needing one friggen 6 to kill him. Finally my black guard with mage was like, ok we got this and killed the giant, who fell into some trees.

Overall List

After facing the 3 spectrums (heavy shooting/magic, Heavy combat, Enough Chaff to bleed your eyes) I am really happy with the list, and with dark magic for the list. Even when one aspect of the army either failed or got wiped out, the other two picked up the slack.

Some things of note. Depending on the match up I can move my characters around. There were times where I wished my bsb was with my black guard, and my mage with the corsairs etc but I stuck with my initial character thought placement to see how it would be.

I love warlocks.. they did 3 wounds to a hellcannon before getting away after being beat in combat and got away.

Overall a good turn out for a good cause, and I can officially say that I have a "tournament" list that I will try and shoot for next year's tournament circuit.  Plus gaming for a good cause is never a bad thing :D